Last week I talked about the value of friendships, and in the last paragraph I wrote: “To have a good friend, you have to be a good friend, and that starts by being a good friend to yourself. Always treat yourself the way you want to be treated, and you …
“Encourage one anotherand build each other up.” I Thessalonians 5:11 I chose this verse for Eva Marie Workshops because I feel that, as women, we have a strong desire and need to be encouraged and built up. I started EMW to bring women together in a safe community in order …
A new season arrived this week in the Northern Hemisphere—the air is getting cooler, and it’s time to turn off the air conditioner and turn on the heat. Summer flowers are fading, patio furniture is going into storage. It’s time for warmer clothes as the days are getting shorter and …
Everywhere I’ve looked this week, I see the word CHANGE. I think, “How much more change can we take?” I know change is part of life, and you can’t stop it, but we’ve experienced A LOT of change in the last six months—change that we’ve had no control over. But …
How do you celebrate your life, or do you? Many of us love to celebrate others’ accomplishments and milestones—birthdays, anniversaries, graduations, new jobs and promotions, weddings, baby and bridal showers—but do we celebrate our own? Do you find it hard to celebrate your life? Celebrating my own accomplishments was a …
JOY is a small word with a big impact. Joy is defined as a feeling of great pleasure and happiness. Sometimes we’re so overcome with these feelings that we shed “tears of joy.” It took a while for me to understand the difference between joy and happiness in my life. …
Last week, in part one, I wrote about starting my business, Eva Marie Workshops, at the age of 70. I encouraged you to nurture your dreams wherever you are in life and accept that you’re right on schedule for you. In part two, I want to share some of the …
I started my business, Eva Marie Workshops, later in life at the age of 70. Although many of my personal experiences like motherhood and volunteer work had prepared me for this, pursuing a big new venture this late in life has been an eye-opening and life-expanding process. For over 40 …
Baggage, what do you think of when you hear the word? The Merriam-Webster dictionary has a variety of definitions: suitcases, trunks, and personal belongings of travels transportable equipment especially of military force intangible things (such as feelings circumstance, or beliefs) that get in the way It’s this last definition that …
Over the years, God has taught me many lessons. Some I learned the first time and did not have to repeat them. Other lessons not so successful. A couple of weeks ago, I was food shopping, and God decided to give me a refresher course on control — a lesson …
